Appropriate time to leave own reception?

I plan on being the last person to leave. I want to enjoy every freaking moment of it.

Why do you want to leave early? What time do you have the reception hall rented?

I would say when your reception ends. I wouldn't leave before my guests

We have it rented till 2am. I just know we will both probably beat by 12am, its going to be a long day and I DO NOT want us both passed out by the time we hit the sack.

Also, I don't want us to over drink, that just spells trouble for both of us, without getting into history. Everyone is different I suppose.

Problem is some of our guests will stay till the very end, even if we don't want to. Isn't it our day?

We stayed through the end of the reception (11pm) and afterparty (the place closed at 2am), The rest of our friends were still going but we decided it was time to call it a night lol.

We stayed until the very end. We could have had the venue until 12, but decided 11 was late enough. A lot of our guests were hanging out at the hotel lobby bar that night, so if your family and friends want to party on, they can.

Hello name twin (:

FH and I are going to be staying until the reception is over.. I'd feel a little strange having people at my wedding reception without me

Our reception only goes until 10PM, though, due to noise ordinances in the city. We're going downtown with people afterwards, though.

You should stay til it's over. Why is it going til 2 am if you don't want to party until 2 am?

Why am I not surprised by everyones responses....ugh i hate this forum. Cancelling my account.

We were not planning on leaving either. I paid a lot for that party, I am going to be there to enjoy it. I dont care about rushing back to my room for some action. If it happens it happens, we have lived together for over a year so rushing back to our room is not at the top of our list.

If you dont want to drink too much dont! Only you know your limit, just make a promise that you wont over drink just because your at your own party.

Well, okay then.

If we didn't have kids, I would love to do a send off before everyone leaves for the night! But our kids are little and would probably kill us if we left without them. Our party ends at 10pm so it's different. Since you have your venue until 2am, I would think like 1230am or 1?

We paid a lot for the wedding, why would I leave early? They'll have to kick us out.

But seriously, you stay till the end.

So confused.. everyone's responses seemed pretty friendly?

I haven't even seen any memes pop up or anything.

ETA: There is now a meme due to bad attitude "cancelling account" comment.. lol

FYI, "nooky" is spelled nookie.

Normally when the bride and groom leave it means the party is over.

What the heck? There was a good mix of responses. Because there were a few that disagreed with you, you throw a tantrum? Wow! See ya!

The responses were not heated at all, apparently OP scares easily.

As host you should be the last to leave the party; also from what I've heard you and hubby are wayyyy too tired to have nookie at the end of the night!

Oh dear haha. Well moving on from OP's tantrum, I think I definitely PLAN on staying until the end, although I am known in my circle of friends for falling asleep early at any party, so we'll see FH will definitely make it to the end though!

For the average person I would suggest staying to the last possible second in order to enjoy each and every moment on a day / night that will pass by so quickly and be over before you know it. That's what I plan to do. However, if you and your FH have a history of over drinking which leads to "trouble" then save the headaches for you and your guests and leave early. Does not sound good.